Suspenders and trousers connection.



No. 703,386. Patented July I, I902.

R. T. CLARKE.

SUSPENDERS AND TROUSERS CONNECTION.

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(No Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD '1. CLARKE, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

SUSPENDERS AND TROUSERS CONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,386, dated July 1, 1902.

Application filed August 28, 1901. Serial No. 73,523. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. CLARKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at ()0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspenders and Trousers Connections, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement ofsuspenders and trousers connections of that class which are particularly adapted for use where the suspenders are worn beneath the outer shirt; and the objects of my invention are to provide asimple andinexpensive trousers connection of this class, to provide an improved button-engaging attachment for the Suspender-ends, whereby a trousers-button on the inner side of the trousers-band may be readily and effectively engaged with the suspender-end, and to produce other improvements, the details of construction of which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a portion of a snspender-strap and its ends, showing my buttonengaging device connected with said ends; and Fig. 2 is a sectional View through the upper portion of a trousers-band and through one of the Suspender-ends and its attachment,illustratin g the manner of conmeeting the same with the button.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a clip of metal orother similar substance which is doubled or bent upon itself at about the center of its length, the body or inner member of this clip being indicated at 1. As shown in the drawings, this clip-body or inner member preferably tapers toward its lower end and has formed in said lower end portion an opening 2. The upper and wider portion of the clip-body 1 has formed therein a transverse slotfi, and above this opening the outer member or portion l is bent downward in front of and out of contact with the portion 1. This outer member terminates in an inwardly-projecting and thence downwardlybent end tongue at. The portion 1 is in the nature of an open frame, the upper enlarged or mouth portion leading centrally into the lower socket or contracted neck portion 5, the latter preferably tapering toward its lower end and terminating a short distance above the tongue extension 4. In connecting the above-described device with the buttonholecontaining portions 6 of the Suspender-ends (i the suspender-end passes through the slot 3 of the button-engaging clip from front to rear, thence extends downward on the rear side of the body portion 1 of said clip. As indicated in the drawings, the tongue 4, which forms the termination of the portion 1 ofthe clip, is inserted through the clip-opening 2, thence through the lower end of the usual buttonhole 6 of the Suspender-end, after which it is bent downward and clamped or pressed against the rear side of the buttonhole-containing portion of said suspenderend, as shown more clearly on that suspenderend which is illustrated on the right of Fig.1.

In order to properly utilize my device for the connection of Suspender-ends with trousers-bandbuttons, the buttons, one of which is indicated at 7 in Fig. 2, are secured in a desirable manner on theinner-side of the trousers-band 8.

In practice the suspenders are designed to be worn over the undershirt and on the under or inner side of the outer shirt, the connection between a Suspender-end and a trousers-button being formed readily by inserting the head of the button in the mouth of the loop-like portion of the clip 1, then forcing said button downward until its shank is wedged or closely embraced within the neck portion or socket 5 of said member 1. It is obvious that in this operation that portion of the outer shirt which in Fig. 2 is indicated at 9 which is adjacent to the button will be likewise caught within the neck of the clip.

From the construction shown and described it will be seen that a simple and inexpensive Suspender-end attachment is provided through the medium of which the suspenders and trousers-buttons may be readily connected when said suspenders are worn beneath the outer shirt.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a suspenders and trousers connection,

pering socket or neck and an end tongue 4 a, buttonhole or similar opening therein, of a adapted to be inserted through the lower end button-engaging attachment therefor comopening of the inner member of the clip and prising a doubled clip-body, the inner menr I through the opening in a. Suspender-end, sub- 5 her thereof having an opening in its upper stantially as specified.

portion adapted to receive a Suspender-end the combination with a. Suspender-end having and having'an opening in its lower portion RICHARD CLARKE and the outer member thereof being in the In presence ofnature of an open frame having an enlarged O. C. SHEPHERD,

10 upper or mouth portion terminating in a ta- A. L. PHELPS. 

